Sentence examples for civilized behaviour from inspiring English sources
That treatment of the vanquished was a great advance in civilized behaviour compared with the methods of Genghis Khan and those of Kublai's contemporaries in Central Asia, where the massacre of the population was still the expected sequel to the capture of a city.
For the aristocrats of the interior, the memories of Majapahit's hierarchical system of government under a godlike king represented standards of civilized behaviour that had to be asserted at all cost against the forces of confusion released by the coastal population.
Part of the schoolboy's training was a commitment to arduous physical activity, and, by the late 19th century, rugby and cricket had become the leading sports that developed the "civilized" manly behaviour of the elite.
"This is not civilized behavior," he said.
For example, the public park, from its introduction in the 1840s, was an attempt to reproduce rational recreation among the lower classes through the design of the park as a place where civilized and rational behaviour and deportment could be encouraged.
Also integral to the show were the Drysdales, the Clampetts' snobby, aristocratic neighbours, whose "civilized" attitudes and behaviour put them in sharp comic contrast with the "uncivilized," rural manners of the Clampetts and fueled much of the show's humour.
Nancy Pelosi, who leads the Democrat minority in the House, also gave the President strong support saying the evidence that Assad had killed thousands in a chemical gas attack on a Damascus suburb two weeks ago was "behaviour outside the circle of civilized human behaviour and we must respond".
Arthur Morgan The medical profession is virtually unique in civilized society in that it has been required to develop its own standards of behaviour in obtaining the personal details of patients by questioning and examining in ways that are not generally acceptable within society.
